It’s been slightly more than 10 years that I have spent in the information security domain. Information Security is mostly assumed to be a very small and tightly connected community. However in these 10 years I have learned there are many persona’s active in the current industry, some very vocal, some very active yet not socially present at all. I have also always wondered how the information security industry started and proliferated in India.
Being from a non computer science background also made me cautious that I might be missing out a lot of things coz I was not formally educated in such tradecraft. the OSINT’er in me would quietly lookup people to understand am I the only one outsider or more like me exist. I was always surprised to find its a healthy mix of formally educated and self educated group. It also has been eye opening to see how different individuals have taken the art of information security and made it their own in unique ways. Whenever I will look at how someone has progressed, it would make me feel that there is more that can be done. It’s not imposter syndrome rather an encouragement that someone has done more and there is a whole lot more that can be done.
This thought has kept resurfacing many times and I kept doing the exercise over and over. This year I thought I would do something to make this an easy task for myself, but also make the data available for others. Introducing Hacking Archives of India: https://hackingarchivesofindia.com
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